Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Town Clerk/Culture Mile Director and to elect Members to serve on the CAI from September 2018.

Members received a report of the Assistant Town Clerk/Culture Mile Director in respect of the recommendations of the City Arts Initiative (CAI).  The report also sought to appoint one or two Members to serve of the CAI for 2018/19. Two Members of the Committee had expressed a willingness to serve. 

In respect of the application for ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’, an installation to raise awareness of human trafficking, Members asked for this to be progressed under delegated authority once the concerns of the Director of Communications have been addressed. 

RESOLVED, that:

1.         The following recommendations of the City Arts Initiative be approved:

Fantastic Beasts / Shine a Light: to be located between Millennium Bridge and Queen Victoria Street.

Tusk Rhino Trail: encouraging the use of suitable locations along the St Paul’s to Museum of London axis, to support the desire for increased activation along this route.

2.         Untitled / The Deep Sleep: the theatrical intervention be declined, noting that the work was not considered strong enough as a standalone piece and that there is no connection between it and other events and programmes in the City to which it may have been a suitable complement.

3.         Hidden in Plain Sight: Authority be delegated to the Town Clerk, in consultation with the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee, once the concerns of the Director of Communications have been addressed

4.         The revised Terms of Reference for the City Arts Initiative be noted and the Member representation on the CAI be increased to include The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee plus two serving Members; Mrs Barbara Newman and Mr Jeremy Simons, appointed for 2018/19, as well as the Chairman of the Sculpture in the City Partnership Board.